dean
Member
after 35 years of fish keeping i finally admit im a closet plat fancier
so heres my first journal, and my first attempt at emmersed growing.
I have been ill for some time now and have totally neglected my 3 tanks to the point where I hardly have any plants left, now im ready to start slow, so i have simply removed all the substrate from my trigon 350, thinking of going with ferns, moss etc on wood. My 35 litres is just a quarantine tank at moment with new plants just chucked in and my 20 litres has been moved to a shelf by my pillow, this needs some tlc and lots of work, but my first project is to try emmersed so heres what i have done so far.
There is a built in cupboard at the bottom of the bed, you know the type with the slop bottom due to it being over the stairs, well ive had some shelves put in it and cleared out all the rubbish
I dug out 2x9w CFL frm the fish house and installed them after painting the area white
next adding polystyrens to all three shelves and put on the heat mats
Wired all 4 mats to the stat
Tidied up the wires and to fill up shelves
no lights on two small ones at moment as there are only mosses on them and budget would strecth to anything else
thinking of putting the existing CFL above the lower shelves and installing either t5's or led over the main area,
Whats your thoughts on lighting?
so heres my first journal, and my first attempt at emmersed growing.
I have been ill for some time now and have totally neglected my 3 tanks to the point where I hardly have any plants left, now im ready to start slow, so i have simply removed all the substrate from my trigon 350, thinking of going with ferns, moss etc on wood. My 35 litres is just a quarantine tank at moment with new plants just chucked in and my 20 litres has been moved to a shelf by my pillow, this needs some tlc and lots of work, but my first project is to try emmersed so heres what i have done so far.
There is a built in cupboard at the bottom of the bed, you know the type with the slop bottom due to it being over the stairs, well ive had some shelves put in it and cleared out all the rubbish
I dug out 2x9w CFL frm the fish house and installed them after painting the area white
next adding polystyrens to all three shelves and put on the heat mats
Wired all 4 mats to the stat
Tidied up the wires and to fill up shelves
no lights on two small ones at moment as there are only mosses on them and budget would strecth to anything else
thinking of putting the existing CFL above the lower shelves and installing either t5's or led over the main area,
Whats your thoughts on lighting?